It is pretty obvious what needs to be done and it is a strange world, to say the least, when the PFA pays its chief executive roughly seven times more than the entire sport gives its most visible anti-racism group every year.
It has been selectively forgotten that traits of authoritarianism neatly overlap with traits of racism visible in the recent American past.
I worry for young blacks, Jews and others who see themselves caricatured, but the cruelty of caricature can be a double-edged sword: it makes the twisted mind of racism visible.
We need to strive to make racism more visible, more conscious.
"As a highly visible protest against xenophobia, racism and exclusion, the outdoor lighting of Cologne Cathedral will therefore be turned off on January 5 for the period of the demonstration".
I argue that race is a social reality because the lives of the people who are categorized as different due to their visible differences experience discrimination and racism (e.g. Bonilla-Silva, 2010; Omi & Winant, 1994).
"The president of the United States needed to have stood up to these white Republican senators and said, 'I can't put a man on the court that wanted to keep the flag of slavery and oppression and racism -- the most visible sign of hatred of black people -- on my court.
"It's the latest and maybe most visible and extreme case of a climate of racism that we face in our entire society but of course is manifested at Columbia as well," he said.
Racism, or at least its most brutally visible incarnations, was, quite simply, bad for business.
Despite this, previous studies on racism and discrimination in Sweden highlight how visible differences, such as skin color, play a role in Swedish society (e.g. Kalonaityte, Kawesa, & Tedros, 2007; Khosravi, 2006; Lundström, 2007; Sawyer, 2000).
